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Karen Wistoft
Karen Wistoft is professor of learning, cooking, tasting and well-being in school at the Danish School of Education (DPU), Aarhus University in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research is affiliated with the National Centre for School Research as well as the Danish Academy of Home Economics Education and Western Norway University of Applied Science (HVL), Faculty of Education, Food and Natural Sciences in Bergen, Norway. Karen’s research interests revolve around the ongoing establishment of a new and highly innovative pedagogical and educational research environment dealing with students’ taste, food knowledge and skills, well-being and learning in primary and secondary school in both indoor and outdoor education. She samples empirically-based evidence and develops new knowledge and theories regarding: (1) taste experiences and competences as well as acquisition of taste knowledge and skills relevant to well-being; (2) implementation of food knowledge and cooking experience in promoting well-being; and (3) new taste didactics towards food education in a participatory and critical learning perspective.
Contact: Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Tuborgvej 164, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark.